A week after the Haines Borough Planning Commission discussed placing restrictions on commercial logging and other resource extraction in the Mud Bay rural residential zone, a local land developer has applied for a residential land-use permit that includes plans to sell logs from trees cleared for a planned residential subdivision.
Skookum Holdings owner Robert Schnabel’s May 19 permit application includes residential lot development on 157 acres of land he bought in 2003.
“The land was…
